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Rh education. Instead, the minister merely said in an unenthusiastic way: "That will do for this time; you need not study any lessons to-day, as it is the first day. I will set you some for to-morrow. You may run out of doors now and play—only mind and be in at the minute to dinner."

The twins went out, not running, as their uncle had said they could, but walking slowly and seriously, with grave faces.

They went down the garden-path, and across the white, dusty road, and up the moor opposite, for a little way, and then sat down;—all without taking counsel together. for they were almost always of one mind about what they wanted to do.

Roy spoke first. His face was flushed, and his lip trembled.

"I can't bear Uncle Robert!"

"And I can't."

"He is just a—a—what 's the name of that awfully wicked Roman Emperor that killed all those nice people?"